When markets sell off, opportunity doesn’t disappear, it can become harder to spot. 

Louise Sandberg, Perpetual’s Head of Research for Australian equities, looks beneath the headlines to explore where value may be emerging across Australian equities and how investors can distinguish businesses with financial strength from value traps. 

She explains why doing the fundamental research matters, particularly when whole sectors are being sold down, and why the Australian market remains an attractive hunting ground for stock pickers.

Here's an excerpt from the video podcast:

“A stock can look cheap on a basic metric, like a price to earnings metric, but once you dig in, you realise that those earnings are not sustainable under periods of pressure.

“It’s about doing the work. It’s about walking the floors of the stores and factories, visiting the mines, talking to management, talking to suppliers, talking to competitors.

“Stocks tend to price in expectations long before they actually occur.

“The Australian market has great breadth. We have resource stocks, we have financials, we have a lot of companies that are more old economy and aren’t directly impacted by AI or are potentially even beneficiaries of AI.”

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